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Ah, the arrogance of completely ignoring history and human nature. The problem with building a community of like-minded people is that after a few generations
by makeitsuckless 12y ago
Ah, the arrogance of completely ignoring history and human nature.
The problem with building a community of like-minded people is that after a few generations it won't be a community of like-minded people that have chosen to be there anymore. And I'm not even talking about any other form of social and economic reality. All else remaining the same (it won't), just bringing in new generations will change the entire dynamic.
What they are basically describing is trying to start a cult.
- Cthulhu_ 12y ago> The problem with building a community of like-minded people is that after a few generation after a few generations it won't be that company's problem anymore - buildings built, money earned, and founders dead or retired.
- jmckib 12y agoOn the other hand, as workers become increasingly mobile, it should become more feasible to maintain a physical community of like-minded people.
- jeremyrwelch 12y agothis is definitely a hard problem, but what they've accomplished so far is IMO better than alternatives. they are careful about adding new roommates, and allow existing roommates to give lots of input during the process. definitely seems to work better than standard Craigslist or friends-network only roommate searching. not sure how it resembles a cult? their goal is not for all the communities to be the same, but rather for there to be many diff types of communities, each of which evolves over time as roommates come and go.
- slm_HN 12y ago>What they are basically describing is trying to start a cult. Cult is exactly what I thought when viewing the website. All the talk of like minded people, the photograph of people sitting around in a circle... hugely creepy.